Mid Fife and Glenrothes | |
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county constituency for the Scottish Parliament |
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Mid Fife and Glenrothes shown within the Mid Scotland and Fife electoral region and the region shown within Scotland
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Current constituency | |
Created | 2011 |
Party | Scottish National Party |
MSP | Jenny Gilruth |
Council area | Fife |
Mid Fife and Glenrothes is a constituency of the Scottish Parliament (Holyrood). It elects one Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) by the plurality (first past the post) method of election. Also, it is one of nine constituencies in the Mid Scotland and Fife electoral region, which elects seven additional members, in addition to nine constituency MSPs, to produce a form of proportional representation for the region as a whole.
Created in 2011, the constituency comprises most of the previous Central Fife constituency which was abolished for the 2011 Scottish Parliament election.
The other eight constituencies of the Mid Scotland and Fife region are Clackmannanshire and Dunblane, Cowdenbeath, Dunfermline, Kirkcaldy, North East Fife, Perthshire North, Perthshire South and Kinross-shire and Stirling.